Five Jewish feminists who on Thursday wore prayer shawls and prayed
out loud at Jerusalem’s Western Wall in defiance of a court order have
been detained for questioning, a police spokeswoman said.

Some 200 women gathered at the Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City to stage
what has become a monthly protest by activists seeking to overturn a
legal ban on them performing certain religious rituals at the sacred
site, an AFP correspondent said.

Media reports this week said Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky
was trying to find a compromise so the women could pray as they wish
without offending more traditional worshippers.

“Five
(women) who were wearing a tallit, which is barred by the Supreme
Court, were taken for questioning,” police spokeswoman Luba Samri told
AFP.

An ultra-Orthodox man who tried to set fire to a prayer pamphlet
being held by one of the women was also taken for questioning, Samri
said.